Conclusion and additional resources

Now you can create a client for the Babelfish
translation service, but this is only the start. Their are hundreds of
other similar services out their that you can use to add value to your Flash
movie. Anything from Stock Quote Lookups, to services that return weather
data, to credit card processors. And their all available to you and your
Flash movie. Services such as these in general are good for Flash
programmers and designers because they provide a way to obtain data in a format
that is not bound to HTML - it's meant for any application on any server,
device, or other application - so it's easy to use in your Flash movie.
Hopefully many other companies will offer their services as Soap based services
in the future, so all of us Flash programmers and designers can use their
data. I'm sure as soap based web services gain in popularity costs will be
added to using these services, for example each time you translate some text it
cost's you 1 penny or so. But that's expected since they are providing a
service that brings value to your Flash movie, and their are also costs involved
in hosting these services. In the future it will become more and more
interesting combining all these different services into unique flash clients
that where not possible before.

One thing to remember is that their is quite a bit of hype surrounding web
services right now - but in the near future they will be as common as search
engines on the internet. So learn the basic's and try not to spend any
money on things that really are not needed - especially at this point in time.

xMethods.com: One of the first and still the best directory of Web Services

remotemethods.com: Decent directory of Web services, although it tends to mirror xMethods
and not as much attention is paid to the listings their.

Salcentral.com: Another directory - they have something going on where they host an intermediate
layer between the actual services and the site. Not sure what to think of Salcentral at this time, but they do have a large selection as
well.

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